Glitteratti in the HIZ-OUSE!

That's right folks.

Once again my crazy crafting team, The Glitteratti, loaded up our glue guns and dished out the smacktalk at the 2010 Crafter's Smackdown. Just like last year, it was madness and fun-ness. Unlike last year, we DID NOT get eliminated in the first round! In fact, out of fourteen total teams, we came in third place.

WOOT!


Our write up in the program with a picture of us from last year.


The team shirts I made. See below for the aprons I made.


Team Glitteratti 2010
From left to right our aprons say, "I will CUT you." "Oh no you di'int." "Shut your face!" and "What are you lookin' at?"

Round 1 Part 1

Round 1 was a two craft round. Our first assignment was to use a large department store gift box and a small jewelery gift box as well as any of the items on the tables (which were loaded with massive amounts of crap) and craft a proposal that would not only make you say NO, but HE** NO!

Yeah.




In case you can't figure it out from the blood, the glove and the white Ford Bronco wedding cake topper, we crafted a marriage proposal from OJ Simpson.

Round 1 Part 2

During part two we had to use some slide show projector reels and craft a new fair ride.


There is a story here actually. You see, one of the other teams...an all male hockey team called the Alaska Avalanche...decided to pick on us the whole time. SO, we reciprocated. We crafted this ride called the Alaska Avalanche. As I presented to the judges I mentioned how it was a prototype for a new ride but that we couldn't get funding to build it because it is SO LAME and nobody would ever want to ride it.

And off we go to round TWO, thank you very much.

Round 2

Using a large cardboard box we had to craft a diarama of a post apocalypitic zombie fallout shelter.

What?



Yeah. We were certain we were going to be eliminated because we couldn't pull this one together. Story and craft were failing to mesh. So I grabbed the mic and talked my way into round 3. HOW? I have no idea.



Round 3

Take a shopping cart and save the world.

Uh.



Enter our friend Robert. He will be playing the part of Obama. We turned our cart into Tree Force One and crafted a big money tree filled with Obama Bucks. This is how we plan to save the world. We will fix healthcare, the economy and the environment by using money that Obama is growing on trees.



We should have considered the fact that our judges panel was extremely liberal. They didn't appreciate the joke.



I don't care who you are. That's funny right there.




Our littlest fan, Makayla.

Our third place trophy

We were required to take it with us or the boss was going to deliver it to one of our houses. I offered to be responsible for it and then I promptly left it on Tracy's doorstep.